Astrology and Tarot in Recruiting Outrage Don Residents
In personnel selection, some companies involve tarot readers and astrologers to evaluate candidates. This practice, according to many Don residents, is frivolous and may conceal unlawful activities.
Mar 7, 2026 0

Some organizations invite astrologers and tarot readers to participate in the process of selecting candidates for vacant positions.
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In the recruiting sphere in the Don region, there is a growing popularity of nontraditional methods for evaluating candidates, including astrology and tarot card reading.
Proponents of this approach claim that it allows determining the potential of a future employee and analyzing their energy.
However, most local residents are skeptical about this.
Generally, such companies should be reported immediately to the relevant authorities. Let the prosecutor«s office check them for fraud and machinations. In such companies, there is a huge number of offenses.
I worked in a company where the director (hired, not the owner) checked everyone for compatibility with him based on horoscope. In the end, it turned out that the director was a swindler and a thief.
Obscurantism.
They seemed to threaten to ban all this chiromancy, especially among recruiters. Once, about ten years ago, at an interview in one firm, they slipped me a questionnaire with questions, including about my zodiac sign. I quickly retreated from there. This is a frivolous approach to a future employee.
We«re returning to the dark Middle Ages...
We need to check astrologers themselves for mental health. They«ve made up nicknames for themselves, like dogs, and are preventing people from getting jobs.
As reported earlier, experts see the spread of magical thinking in hiring personnel as a sign of a deep systemic crisis in the labor market.
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